Overview

The Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Space project (HIPerSpace) is brought to you by the creators of HIPerWall. HIPerSpace is the next generation concept for ultra-high resolution distributed display systems that can scale into the billions of pixels, providing unprecedented high-capacity visualization capabilities to experimental and theoretical researchers. HIPerSpace has held the distinction of the "World's Highest Resolution Display" since it was first introduced in 2006, taking the top spot previously held by HIPerWall, which held it since 2005. HIPerSpace has served as the baseline system for nearly all OptIPortals that have been deployed since the end of 2006, i.e. it is the godfather of most high-resolution multi-tile walls that have emerged recently, most of which are being developed as nearly identical carbon copies. HIPerSpace is being powered by our cluster graphics library and cluster management framework, called CGLX.

The Top Resolution Distributed Multi-Tile Displays

Acknowledgments

This research is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and the Jacobs School of Engineering (JSoE).

Frequently Asked QuestIons

How do i get one?
HIPerSpace and its CGLX middleware are the baseline for most major multi-tile display systems that have been deployed over the past year. That said, if you want to build your own version, we have resources in place that will help you to do so for academic environments. If you want to buy a fully integrated and functional system outright, we can facilitate this as well. Please contact Prof. Kuester or Dr. Kai-Uwe Doerr for details.

Are you Interested in Research Collaborations?
Absolutely. We are always searching for new and exciting challenges and always happy to contribute to collaborative research proposals.

Why LCDs and not Projectors?

HIPerSpace and its predecessor HIPerWall are an approximation of next generation digital wall paper that we expect to see in the very near future. Our focus is on providing the fundamental algorithms, middleware and techniques needed to drive these systems and interact with them. With this in mind, there are a couple of key considerations in respect to longevity, brightness, heat signature, noise emissions, energy consumption and physical dimensions that have to be taken into account.

Advantages:

generally higher pixel density (DPI)

20/20 vision is the name of the game

smaller physical footprint

no throw distance issues

no issues with front vs rear-projection

smaller energy footprint

smaller heat signature

no noise emission

better contrast

easy to scale (one advantage of hard edges)

Disadvantages:

bezels (the first prototypes of OLEDs are out that address this complaint)

not suitable for active or passive stereo display (can use a barrier type approach though for auto-stereo)

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